It’s July.
The height of summer with plenty of vacations and traveling being done. Warm nights and sometimes even a bit too warm days in the sun with an ice cream in hand.
Lazy days at the beach having fun and recharging with family and friends.
And to help you make this a happy month and summer I’d like to share 85 of the most powerful, beautiful and funny short July quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here that inspires you, renews your energy and that you can share with loved ones to make their summer even better too.
Short July Quotes to Welcome This Beautiful Summer Month
“July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass.”
– Hal Borland
“The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.”
– E. V. Lucas
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han
“Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.”
– Sara Coleridge
“The summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July.”
– Francis Thompson
“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”
– Roald Dahl
“July is a blind date with summer.”
– Hal Borland
“July, with its days of blue skies and time that seemingly stands still, holds a special place in my heart.”
– Daisaku Ikeda
“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden.”
– Jean Hersey
“Then came July like three o’clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.”
– Allie Ray
“By July, a damp Southern heat had settled down on the town like warm sweet syrup.”
– Marti Healy
“They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.”
– Bill Bryson
“No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.”
– Mac Thornberry
“Long has paled that sunny sky: echoes fade and memories die: autumn frosts have slain July.”
– Lewis Carroll
“Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show – in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.”
– Larry the Cable Guy
“We spent June and July in the Rockies, growing stronger, feeling feral in the untamed range of mountains.”
– Aspen Matis
“Welcome, July! No matter how hard the circumstances were in the previous month. Forget everything and start this new month in a new way.”
– Unknown
“The linden, in the fervors of July, hums with a louder concert.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“July is hot afternoons and sultry nights and mornings when it’s joy just to be alive.”
– Hal Borland
Positive Short July Quotes for a Happy Summer
“It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.”
– Charlotte Eriksson
“When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.”
– Rick Bass
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer – one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams
“Hot days and sultry nights and crashing thunderstorms are a part of July, and to the drone of bees in the clover fields will soon be added the high-pitched sibilance of the cicada.”
– Hal Borland
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
“I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks to the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights.”
– Ann Voskamp
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
– John Lubbock
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
– C. Day Lewis
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
– Hosea Ballou
“Life is a summer, full of fun, at the beach, under the sun.”
– Debasish Mridha
“In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the July night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
– Kellie Elmore
“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson
“Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.”
– Henry Rollins
“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
– Debasish Mridha
Funny and Short July Quotes for Laughs and Stress Relief
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
– Earl Wilson
“It’s Fourth of July weekend, or as I call it, ‘Exploding Christmas.’”
– Stephen Colbert
“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent
“Then came hot July boiling like to fire, that all the garments he had cast away.”
– Edmund Spenser
“No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.”
– Earl Weaver
“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell
“Being a traditionalist, I’m a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I’m already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.”
– John Waters
“July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole.”
– Laura Kasischke
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
– Patricia Briggs
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have.”
– Joanna Franklin Bell
“Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.”
– Gene Simmons
“Thinking back to when it’s warm outside. Oh, why couldn’t Christmas be in July?”
– Haley Mary Artzab
“I’m a July girl. I was born with my heart on my sleeve, a fire in my soul, and a mouth I can’t control.”
– Unknown
“I’d like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.”
– Joey Chestnut
“Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July.”
– Earl Weaver
Short July Quotes on the Beauty of Summer (Great for Instagram and Your Letter Board)
“I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy warm dreams of distant thunder.”
– Terri Guillemets
“July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.”
– Jean Hersey
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen
“In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can’t drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening.”
– Mary Quant
“In the long dusks of summer, we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”
– Steven Millhauser
“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls
“Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.”
– Melissa Marr
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
– Zooey Deschanel
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.”
– Susan Polis Schutz
“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.”
– Deb Caletti
“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed.”
– China Miéville
“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time.”
– Sarah Dessen
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Let us live like flowers – wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.”
– Ellen Everett
“Girls just wanna have sun.”
– Unknown
“If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.”
– Unknown
“I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”
– George Gershwin
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller
“In summer time to simply be.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer
Want more inspiration for a wonderful summer? Then check out these inspirational July quotes, the short summer quotes in this post, the inspirational summer quotes here and also this one with lots of funny summer quotes.